H&M comes to Estonia, major contest for jobs

Over two hundred applications have been received in a couple of days for the five job openings fashion retail chain H&M declared for the three stores that it intends to open in Tallinn in 2013, LETA/Eesti Päevaleht writes.

H&M
will open three stores in Tallinn next autumn: in Kristiine and Rocca al Mare
shopping centres and former chief post office building in central Tallinn, the
daily claims.

Kristjan Vanaselja, sales manager of Manpower Baltics that organises staff search for the chain, said
that the five jobs, that were all managerial or midlevel jobs, have brought
around 200 applications in three days and the number is likely to surge later
as employees of that level usually take time to think their applications
through thoroughly.

H&M
spokesman Hacan Andersson said that
the company doesn’t wish to comment upon the topic of the number of staff or
their wok conditions before real hiring starts.

"It is true that we have started
to look for managers for our stores. It is unfortunately too soon to say how
many people altogether we would hire but we can speak about it more when the
opening of the stores in the autumn of 2013 is closer," he said.

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